Begging is a crime in England, and the number of prosecutions has greatly increased in recent years.

To ban begging could be acceptable in a society that offers everyone (without exception) some decent alternative. Under a starve-the-poor government, this is just one more nail in destitute people's coffins.

The Tories have spread a "climate of fear" in the NHS; staff that see bad patient care are afraid to report it.

This is coherent with the Tory goal of cutting the NHS as much as possible. The less people realize how bad the consequences are, the farther they can go.

Sudan confiscated the entire print run of 14 newspapers. It is not clear what story the government was censoring.

Censorship in the advanced countries sometimes works more subtly, but sometimes involves imprisoning people for various kinds of political statements, as has occurred in the US and France.

Much of the US has been shut down by a big snow storm coming on top of several other big snow storms.

Most Americans probably don't know that this is one of the indirect effects of global heating.

PISSI has imposed cruelty to women beyond even Saudi Arabia. Many women will be unable to survive this for long.

Rather than dying passively, they should shoot PISSI supporters or make suicide attacks against PISSI.

PISSI has raped so many women and girls that Iraqi society is on the verge of realizing it is wrong blame the victim of rape.

I suggest offering those ostracized women a chance to recover their self-esteem with military uniforms, weapons, and training. They will fight like demons against PISSI, once they see they can.

Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative explains how executions dehumanize everyone involved.